VizDoom is an AI contest where bots fight each other in a game of Doom. FB, Microsoft and many academic institutions competed. Also check out this video demonstrating CMU’s AI from the “Playing FPS Games with Deep Reinforcement Learning” paper (more below).

Why is the world’s most advanced AI used for cat videos, but not to help us live longer and healthier lives? A brief history of AI in Medicine, and the factors that may help it succeed where it has failed before.

A sequence generation framework, called SeqGAN that models the data generator as a stochastic policy in reinforcement learning (RL). The RL reward signal comes from the GAN discriminator judged on a complete sequence, and is passed back to the intermediate state-action steps using Monte Carlo search. By Lantao Yu, Weinan Zhang, Jun Wang, Yong Yu.

A generative model based on a deep recurrent architecture that combines recent advances in computer vision and machine translation and that can be used to generate natural sentences describing an image. By Oriol Vinyals, Alexander Toshev, Samy Bengio, Dumitru Erhan (Google Brain).

Target-driven visual navigation using actor-critic model whose policy is a function of the goal as well as the current state Also check out the accompanying video. By Yuke Zhu, Roozbeh Mottaghi, Eric Kolve, Joseph J. Lim, Abhinav Gupta, Li Fei-Fei, Ali Farhadi.